PROFOUNDNESS

profundity, profoundness

(noun) intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc; “the depth of my feeling”; “the profoundness of the silence”

deepness, profundity, profoundness

(noun) the quality of being physically deep; “the profundity of the mine was almost a mile”

astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth, deepness

(noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity

(noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; “the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs”

profoundness

(noun) extremeness of degree; “the profoundness of his ignorance”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

profoundness (usually uncountable, plural profoundnesses)

The quality of being profound; profundity

Source: Wiktionary


Pro*found"ness, n.

Definition: The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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(adjective) not quite exact or correct; “the approximate time was 10 o’clock”; “a rough guess”; “a ballpark estimate”


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